RE: os-9 & disks Re: Msg 19389

Seems that the only real difference is that you got frustrated by trying torun OS-9 off one drive and I went out and purchased two 80 track DSQD drivesand then finally a hard disk. You’ll find OS-9 much easier off of double-sideddrives but you must watch out for one very critical point:

You CANNOT boot off of a double sided drive UNLESS you run some type of programsuch as bootfix on that drive.

Very typical of situations would be you finally got the 40 track DSDD patchesin and you now want to create a fully capable boot disk with all of yourCMDS and etc. directories on it. What you would do is usually as follows:

OS9:format /D0 R “OS-9 System Master”

OS9:cobbler /D0

OS9:bootfix /D0; * VERY IMPORTANT

If you fail to do that last step you will find yourself with a bootdisk thatwill not boot. Worse yet, if you have already copied all of your files overto this disk you must now start all over again from scratch. This is the onlypitfall you may run into. It happened to me until I figured it out by readingthe documentation, hehe.